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While the Council possesses several equally good methods of attack any successful procedure needs to determine the facts concerning the election and recount, Concerning the election, Playfair and Gibbs have not yet explained the absence of officials at polling places at specified times, the absence of a place for signature on the ballots, the unorthodox ballot boxes, and the unusual expense involved in their arrangements. Concerning the recount, no adequate explanation has yet been offered of the reasons for the recount, the failure to notify or obtain authorization from the Council, and the final unfortunate release of the results...
Terming the Senior Marshal recount, "good-natured" and asserting that such occurrences "work for the best in lifting the institution (Harvard) from the withered hand of tradition," Robert S. Playfair '36, one of the two Juniors in charge of the election, expressed his opinion on the significance of the present situation in a written statement yesterday...
...separate statement, however, Playfair says, "While I sympathize with the candidates affected by the recount, I am inclined to disagree with the popular superstition that the recount irreparably mars the even surface of Harvard history for the last 300 years...
...Playfair also stated that the recount results may be regarded as final and that Herman Gundlach' Jr. '35, is officially First Marshal. An authoritative source told the CRIMSON last night, however, that the recount could not be regarded as final until confirmed by the Student Council...
Whether the recount is to be official was undecided tonight. Neither Playfair nor Gibbs could be reached last night although the former was reported to be in Cambridge. Efforts to locate Gundlach, the retiring football captain, at his home in Houghton, Michigan, disclosed that he was on a train bound east. A sufficient number of the Student Council had not returned from their vacations to hand down an opinion...